June 2011
12 posts
“If you take a picture of someone you are saying: I’m watching your behavior. You’re accountable. You are expressing your concern and putting them on notice.”
—Mark Allen
May 2011
16 posts
“links high sensitivity, or as he calls it, the “highly empathic temperament” with the Self Sacrifice Schema (Young, 2003, pp. 246–251), which in turn is almost always related to the Emotional Deprivation Schema. In his opinion, these persons (patients) need to learn to focus on themselves instead of others and to learn to get their own needs met, needs they typically are not aware of. In individuals who have the genetic trait of HSP and come from a troubled family, this trait of sensitivity can have an adverse effect on self concept, and thus is mistakenly considered by some to be a psychopathological condition that can be treated with experiential, cognitive, behavioral, and limited-reparenting strategies.”
—Highly sensitive person - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“I’m always taken care of by my work. You let go of your own idea and let the work go where it needs to go. And that’s sometimes very uncomfortable. One learns to linger in discontent and not be judgmental, but to have faith.”
—Final Analysis: Kiki Smith on Creative Struggle | Psychology Today
“A poem is one of the most concise ways of showing the combination of the unexpected and the inevitable. When I hear a poem, I want to have a feeling that says, “Gee, I never thought about it this way before, but now that I have, boy, that seems so right.” It doesn’t have to be a profound piece of philosophy. It can be a very small, down-to-earth aspect of being human.”
—As Good As His Words : Webster World
“I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand” —Perfectionist Quotes - BrainyQuote
Barbra Streisand” —Perfectionist Quotes - BrainyQuote
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“And it turns out that this fear of having compassion for yourself is strongly correlated with fear of having compassion for others, and a lack of willingness to extend compassion to others. Self compassion is not letting ourselves off the hook and being self indulgent, it’s about choosing to use our own happiness and our own desire for meaning and connection with others as our primary motivation, as opposed to using guilt shame and fear as our primary motivation.”
—All About Empathy: A portal for information: articles, definitions, links, videos, etc. about Empathy and Compassion
